Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2012

With special glasses, audience-goers are now able to see the ship crash into the iceberg even more vividly than before. Clay Christensen's work on disruptive innovation shows the power of David against Goliath, the mammal over the dinosaur, the startup over the incumbent. It's What You Can't See.

Disruptive Innovation 12

Disruptive Innovation Wireless Christensen Film 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Marketers see the world as campaigns, messages, channels, and audiences. To a marketer, sales is a channel for reaching their audience. If you’re managing a new product launch, those metrics might be free trial sign-ups, preorders, or product reviews. But salespeople wants to be treated as customers, not channels.

Execution 12

Execution Strategy Metrics Resistance 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

Most pundits agreed on what was wrong — a lack of breakthrough innovation since the passing of founder Steve Jobs. But in our view, Apple faces a deeper problem: the industries most susceptible to its unique disruptive formula are just too small to meet its growth needs. When Innovation Is Strategy. in Innovation.

Industry 8

Industry Wireless Advertising Content 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2015

There is no question that the media industry is experiencing dramatic disruption on many fronts—in the way it creates content, distributes content to consumers, and monetizes audiences. Creative agencies unfurl their best ideas to make advertising memorable while informing or entertaining audiences. Humans and Automation.

Media 8

Media Advertising Audience Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2014

For one thing, to attract a wider audience, it was held within the confines of San Francisco Bay. Learn quickly from disruption. This Cup also featured a disruptive innovation: the practice of “foiling.” What we heard suggested six pieces of advice that leaders of land-based businesses might do just as well to heed.

Sports 10

Sports Disruptive Innovation Learning-by-Doing Morale 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2016

It was with this in mind that Russell Reynolds profiled executives tasked with digitally transforming long-established firms, who are often chosen to overcome organizational inertia and drive enterprise-wide digital transformation and innovation. It is this combination that makes them able to drive transformation.

Industry 8

Industry B2C Agility Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2011

HP management conceded that the disruptive impact of the iPad forced their hand but that hand was already quite weak from a decade of over-serving the market. And it's not like they were ignoring innovation. Which aspiring manager would want to deal with the disaster that was Apple at the time? How do I know?

Software 9

Software Maturity Resistance Business Model 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

It also has shifted from simply distributing other people’s content to investing heavily in the creation of its own content, using its substantial knowledge of customer preferences to maximize the chances that content will connect with an audience. A streaming model requires managing website uptime and bandwidth costs.

Metrics 8

Metrics Retail Content Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2012

In our database of over 6,000 professionals who have taken the Innovator's DNA self & 360 assessments, people (entrepreneurs and managers alike) who "agree" with the survey statement "I am creative" consistently deliver disruptive solutions — by creating new businesses, products, services, and processes that no one has done before.

Creativity 17

Creativity Innovation Disruptive Innovation Audience 17

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2017

What has escaped attention is that the device burst into a sector long insulated from the slightest threat of disruptive innovation. It quickly overcame AM radio in content quality, coverage, and audience share. Wireless rights became more flexible, ceding spectrum management to the market. Apple Invents a Radio.

Armstrong 8

Armstrong Wireless Succession Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2011

I am on record of being "long" on innovation in Asia, and I continue to feel tremendous innovation energy in the region. But observations during two recent meetings made me wonder about the degree to which Asia needs a "Woodstock moment" to realize its full innovation potential. Then the top brass left. The technology is simple.

CTO 13

CTO Audience Consensus Innovation 13